Music Hall cd-25 or Rega planet 2000

The Rega has a good bottom end on it for the price. It goes fairly deep and is enjoyable. I would not say the bottom end is the weak point.

If anything is a weak point its the high end. I find the high end while also enjoyable, on the rolled off side. The I think Rega did this to hide some of the digital nasties, as well as make it sound more like a turn table.

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Nick

Boy are you in luck! Go to ecoustics.com. Do a word search under Music Hall. The first review of the MH-CD25 from audaud.com (October 2002) does a direct comparison between the Music Hall and Rega Planet 2000. Rotel 1070 CDP is also compared to the Music Hall in the same review.

BW Maxx

If you like the Music Hall you can get the Onix 88 from AV123 on sale for 299.00. It's the same exact player I believe.

TAS magazine raved about a Rotel player (I forget the number) that is only about $700 new. You should look into it as it held it's own pretty well against a $5500 Electrocompaniet player.

Hi!

Take a look at this thread where I talk about the players I had last year: http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1114517770&read&3&4&5

I feel the Music Hall and Planet 2000 are great players. But I feel the Arcam CD73T and Cambridge Audio Azur 640C bested them both. The Arcam is very revealing of detail but seemed a little lean/analytical to me. The 640C was not as revealing but was more full bodied and more musical. If you want to spend more, look into the Consonance CD-120. That is the player I currently use.

Have fun!